Homemakers Plan For Coming Year County Board Outlines Goals
The county homemakers board met to draft next year’s work focusing on better reading, recreation centers for youth, and greater cooperation with county agencies. Plans promote More to Live at Home by producing and storing food for varied winter menus, boosting health, sanitation, and self reliance. A county picnic is planned for August 14 at Cacapon Park. Achievement Day is set for November 6.
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Blair
Gairn
Miss Sprouse
Mss Sprouse
Frederick County
Cacapon Park
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Eshope
Walter Larrick
Powell's Fort Camp Dedication Set For July 12
Formal dedication of Powell's Fort Camp, organized by Camp Roosevelt and the National Forest Service, will be held July 12 at 2 00 pm. Fifty to sixty children from the Bible Mission of Elkton will participate as the camp opens and other groups follow. The mountain camp sits on the Massanutten range with a large swimming pool and capacity for about 75 children. The camp, with several buildings, will operate until early September.
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Powells Fort
Camp
Roosevelt
National Forest Service
Forest Superoe
M.C. Oone
The
S Bible Mission of
Elkton
Massanutten Mountains
Norfolk ex-city attorney named ABC board chairman
John Sebrell, former city attorney of Norfolk, became chairman of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control board for the first time since joining the board in March 1939. He will be succeeded by Hunter Miller of Bedford, currently vice chairman, as the board rotates chairmanship annually. R. McC. Bullington served as chairman for the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sebrell
Norfolk
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Hunter Miller
Bedford
R. McC. Bullington
Virginia educators plan extensive trade training program
Educators from 12 or more Virginia sections met with Dr. B. H. Van Oot to finalize vocational courses for adults. Classes will start in Richmond and other cities to train for defense industries with 40 hours weekly, via day sessions for jobless workers and night sessions for employed workers. Courses continue next fall in schools and plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
B. H. van Oot
Norfolk
Newport News
Roanoke
Lynchbur
Danville
Portsmouth
Bris
Army
Navy
State
Newport News Plant May Build More War Vessels
Navy officials said negotiations with Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co and other firms covered financing additional building facilities at the Newport News yard for warships. It was unofficially reported the yard sought up to two extra building ways and one drydock, depending on work allotments under the new program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Newport News
Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Newport News Yard
Congress
Department
State To Assist Legion Museum Near Newport News
Governor Price authorized 15000 dollars from the state treasury to help fund an American Legion museum near Newport News after a conference with Major George D. Collings. The funds join a 177000000 appropriation bill for state government operations over the next two fiscal years, with the museum to be built near the James River bridge’s northern end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
George D. Collings
Newport News
Price
American Legion
General Assembly
James River Bridge
Concrete Tank Under Construction At Stephens City
Workmen began pouring concrete for a 40 foot high water tank with about 119000 gallons capacity in Stephens City. P. E. Lineburg says two thirds of a 6 inch main on Main street is laid with 1200 feet still underground. A 2 inch line will be added on the east side to reduce surface disturbance. Taps exist at most sites. construction has a six month schedule. July 14 marks end of month two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephens City
P. E. Lineburg
The
Star
Ten Pale
Pouings
Lineburg
Main Street
Lower House Approves Potomac Valley Compact
The House passed a resolution granting consent to an interstate compact creating the Lee Valley Conservancy to abate pollution in the Potomac River basin. Maryland Virginia and the District of Columbia have ratified it. the compact establishes an interstate commission with three appointees from each state and three appointed by the President.
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Washington
House
White House
Congress
Lee Valley
United States
Virginia to gain $411000 in 1940 taxes
The Commonwealth of Virginia will receive $411000 in additional taxes in 1940, about $90000 over prior budget estimates. Assessments by the State Corporation Commission show total taxes for 1940 at $4497317, up from $4152080 in 1939 due to higher business volume. Steam railroads pay $280700 extra, electric light and power firms $73700, and telephone companies $16843.
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Richmond
Commonwealth of Virginia
State Corporation Commission
Electric Light and Power Companies
Pioneers of the West at Ford Exposition
Edwin Willard Deming the first American painter of Indian and animal subjects is nearly eighty. William Henry Jackson America's oldest living photographer celebrated his ninety seventh birthday recently. The pair, famed explorers, shared stories on the Ford Exposition terrace and met notable figures including Vilhjalmur Stefansson Burton Holmes and Dr. Walter Granger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far West
Edwin Willard Deming
William Henry Jackson
Jackson
Edison Institute Museum
Dearborn
Michigan
Deming
America
Explorers Club
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Burton Holmes
Walter Granger
Bishop Address Youth Gathering in Virginia
Bishop W. W. Peele of Richmond told more than 500 youths at the Virginia Methodist Conference senior assembly to live positively constructive lives. He urged young people representing churches across Virginia to get all they can from the event and to give to others, noting the more they give the more they have. It was the second youth assembly held at the college this summer after a prior session for ages 18 to 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynchburg
W. W. Peele
Richmond
Virginia Methodist Conference
Virginia
Virginia pig crop slows in spring 1940 decline shown
Agricultural statisticians estimate the Virginia spring pig crop at 438 000, down 87 000 from 1939. Nationwide pork output also dips, with colder winter and spring cited for fewer pigs per litter. Sows due to farrow this fall total about 67 000, down from last fall but above the 10 year average.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
United States
Answers to Today's Quiz
Answers printed on page 4 list ten items. Notable entries include Jeanne d Arc U S Marines Au revoir Treasury Department and a Revolution around the earth. Also Stuka and a roster of boxers including Max Schmeling Jack Sharkey Max Baer Primo Camera Jim Braddock with Guam England and times like Six a m.
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Jeanne d’Arc
U. S. Marines
Au Revoir
Treasury Department
Stuka
Max Schmeling
Jack Sharkey
Max Baer
Primo Camera
Jim Braddock
Guam
England
Musselman Co Ordered to Pay Unemployed Workers
West Virginia officials order Musselman Company workers at Inwood to receive jobless compensation after a Kanawha Circuit Court ruling. About 40 to 50 seasonal employees at the Musselman apple packing plant in Berkeley County will share roughly 2500 to 3000 dollars, about 50 dollars per claimant, as minimum benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Department of Unemployment Compensation
Co. H. Musselman Company
Inwood
Kanawha
Julian Bouchelle
Musselman
Berkeley County
John H. Fox
Fox
Apple
Wage Earners Found Healthier By A Survey
New York July 2 Ameri can wage earners and their families are a healthy group and are steadily growing healthier, judging by the mortality experience of the million of Industrial policy holders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The death rate for the first five months of 1940 was lower than any similar period in any year. May's mortality was a record low at 7.3 per 1 000. Improvements in mortality from diarrheal diseases and conditions of pregnancy and childbirth, plus a 25 percent drop in pneumonia deaths in a single year, mark the year 1940 among wage earners. Ten of twelve causes show even lower rates in 1940 than 1939, including measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria, pneumonia, tuberculosis, cirrhosis, appendicitis, puerperal conditions, and accidents.
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New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Health Bureau Announces Cooperation With Military Venereal Disease Control
The Virginia Health Department ties with Army and Navy for expanded venereal disease control in Hampton Roads. Dr I C Riggin names Dr E J Guilfoyle to Norfolk and part of Princess Anne County, Dr Lewis McKlhany to Portsmouth Norfolk and Princess Anne counties, and Dr Paul Bowden to Newport News and lower peninsula. Officers will coordinate with local health officials to widen case finding and treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
State Health Department
Army
Navy
Hampton Roads Military Area
I. C. Riggin
E. J. Guilfoyle
Norfolk
Princess Anne County
Lewis McKlhany
Portsmouth
Frederick County Lambs Show Quality Gains This Year
Frederick county farmers report improved lamb quality through pure bred sires better feeding and worm treatment. Fred Stine said three shipments totaled 100 blue lambs plus 218 yellow and 145 red lambs with net returns of 11.97, 9.93 and 9.22 per hundred. In addition 43 old sheep and 8 calves were marketed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Fred Stine
Strategic materials list underscores national defense
The commissioner said action was driven by industrial and military expansion in the region. The material list defines strategic materials as those critical to defense, requiring conservation and external sourcing in war, including aluminum and rubber among others.
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United States
Court notice in Kuhn estate reference hearing set
In Wins ter Virginia the Corporation Court orders a master commissioner to inquire into W L Kuhn's estate and creditors. A July 18, 1940 date is fixed for filing and proving claims at No 4 N Loudoun Street. Proceedings may be continued if not completed.
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Corporation Court
City OF
Winchester
Virginia
William L. Kuhn
Claire L. Kuhn
W. L. Kuhn
M. M. Lynch
John J Kuhn
Loudoun Street
J. W. Baker
M.M.L
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Powell’s Fort
ABC Group
Legion Museum
Brace and Strnas
John W. Rosenberger & Co., Inc
Braddock
U.S
Britain
Kingland
Canada
Goodrich
Silvertown Stores
Pioneers OF the
Silco Cut-Price Stores, Inc
Potomac By-Products Co
Harpers Ferry
Health Bureau
Dorothy Ebersole
Bronx
N. Y
Allis-Chalmers
Orchard & Parm
Mervel W. Adams
E. Piccadilly St
General Electric
General & Electric
Anderson
E. Boscawen St
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